I. Personation
II. Expression
XI.—GESTURE.
I. Position of the Hand
II. Direction
XII.—INTRODUCTION TO AUDIENCE.
I. Introduction
II. Advice to Students
XIII.—GENERAL EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE.
PART II.
SELECTIONS FOR READING.
A Child's First Impression of a Star… N. P. Willis.
A Legend of Bregenz… Adelaide A. Procter.
A Modest Wit
A Prayer… James Russell Lowett.
A Slip of the Tongue
A Tarryton Romance
Advice to a Young Lawyer… Story.
An Autumn Day… Bryant.
An Order for a Picture… Alice Cary.
Ask Mamma… A. M. Bell.
Aunty Doleful's Visit
Baby's Visitor
Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
Bells Across the Snow… Frances Ridley Havergal.
Brutus on the Death of Caesar… Shakespeare.
Calling a Boy in the Morning
Cataline's Defiance… Rev'd. George Croly.
Christ Turned and Looked upon Peter… Elisabeth B. Browning.
Cuddle Doon… Alexander Andersen.
Curfew Must not Ring To-night
Dios Te Guarde
Domestic Love and Happiness… Thomson.
Drifting… T. Buchanan Read.
Elizabeth… H. W. Longfellow.
Eve's Regrets on Quitting Paradise… Milton.
Experience with European Guides… Mark Twain.
Fashionable Singing
First Experience
Gertrude of Wyoming… Campell.
Ginevra… Rogers.
God, the True Source of Consolation… Moore.
Good-Bye… Whyte Melville.
Guilty or Not Guilty
Hagar in the Wilderness… N. P. Willis.
Hannah Binding Shoes… Lucy Larcom.
Highland Mary… Burns.
Home Song… H. W. Longfellow.
How We Hunted a Mouse… Joshua Jenkins.
How Women say Good-bye
I Remember, I Remember… T. Hood
I'll Take What Father Takes… W. Boyle.
In School Days… Whittier.
Jimmy Butler and the Owl
Keys… Bessie Chandler
King John… Shakespeare.
Landing of Columbus… Rogers.
Little Bennie… Annie G. Ketchum.
Little Mary's Wish… Mrs. L. M. Blinn.
Love in Idleness… Shakespeare.
Makin' an Editor Outen 0' Him… Will. M. Carleton.
Malibran and the Young Musician
Marmion and Douglas… Sir W. Scott.
Mary Maloney's Philosophy
Mary Stuart… Schiler.
Memory's Pictures… Alice Cary.
My Trundle Bed
Nay, I'll Stay With the Lad… Lillie E. Barr.
Never Give Up
Niagara… John G. C. Brainard.
No Kiss
Ocean… W. Wetherald.
On His Blindness… Milton.
On the Miseries of Human Life… Thomson.
Only Sixteen
Oration Against Cataline… Cicero.
Over the Hill from the Poor-House… Will M. Carleton.
Papa Can't Find Me
Passing Away… Pierpont.
Paul's Defence before Agrippa… Bible.
Per Pacem ad Lucem… Adelaide A. Procter.
Poor Little Joe… Peleg Arkwright.
Poor Little Stephen Girard… Mark Twain.
Prayer… Tennyson.
Reading the List
Reflections on the Tomb of Shakespeare… Irving.
Rock of Ages… F. L. Stanton.
Roll Call
Romeo and Juliet… Shakespeare
Sandalphon… H. W. Longfellow.
Santa Claus in the Mines
Satisfaction
Saved… Mary B. Sleight.
Scene at Niagara Falls… Charlei Torson.
Scenes from Hamlet… Shakespeare.
Scenes from Leah the Forsaken
Scenes from Macbeth… Shakespeare.
Scenes from Pizarro… Sheridan.
Scene from Richelieu… Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer.
Sim's Little Girl… Mary Hartwell.
Slander
Somebody's Mother
Song of Birds… H. W. Longfellow.
Sonnet… James Ritttell Lowell.
St. Philip Neri and the Youth… Dr. Byrom.
Temperance… Rev. John Ireland.
The Ague
The Approach to Paradise… Milton.
The Armada… Macaulay.
The Bald-Headed Man
The Battle of Agincourt… Shakespeare.
The Bishop's Visit… Emily Huntington Miller.
The Bridal Wine-Cup… Sidney Herbert.
The Chimes of S. S. Peter and Paul
The Dead Doll
The Death-Bed… Thomas Hood.
The Engineer's Story
The Faithful Housewife
The Famine… H. W. Longfellow.
The Field of Waterloo… Lord Byron.
The Fireman… George M. Baker.
The Foolish Virgins… Tennyson.
The Hired Squirrel… Laura Sanford.
The Hypochondriac
The Inexperienced Speaker
The Jester's Choice… Horace Smith.
The Kiss
The Last Hymn… Marianne Farningham.
The Last Station
The Launch of the Ship… H. W. Longfellow.
The Little Hatchet Story… R. N. Burdette.
The Little Hero
The Little Quaker Sinner
The Miniature
The Model Wife… Ruskin.
The Modern Cain… E. Evans Edwards.
The Newsboy's Debt
The Old Man in the Model Church… John H Yates.
The Old Soldier of the Regiment… G. Newell Lovejoy.
The Opening of the Piano… O. W. Holmes.
The Painter of Seville… Susan Wilson.
The Patriot's Elysium… Montgomery.
The Polish Boy… Mrs. Ann S. Stephens.
The Potion Scene (Romeo and Juliet)… Shakespeare.
The Quaker Widow… Bayard Taylor.
The Quarrel of Brutus and Cassius… Shakespeare.
The Retort
The Rift of the Rock… Annie Herbert.
The Seasons… Thomson.
The Serenade
The Sioux Chief's Daughter… Joaquin Miller.
The Sister of Charity… Owen Meredith.
The Wedding Fee… B. M. Streeter.
The Whistler… Robert Story.
The World from the Sidewalk
The Worn Wedding Ring… W. C. Bennett.
The Young Gray Head… Mrs. Southey.
There's Nothing True but Heaven… Moore.
Though Lost to Sight to Memory Dear… Ruthven Jenkyns.
Three Words of Strength… Schiller.
To Her Husband… Anne Bradstreet.
Tom… Constance Fenimore Woolsen.
Trial Scene from the Merchant of Venice… Shakespeare.
Trusting
Wanted
Waterloo… Lady Morgan.
Wounded
Your Mission